New Year

And so it ends...
That year is gone
Those pages torn
Rift by the ravages of time
Those paths we walked
The dreams we stocked
And fearfully chose to decline
We've left that world behind
And but for memories
All the lives we lived
Lie lost around the bend
And so it ends...

But now time is new
And things begin again
With lingering kisses
To soothe and mend
The wounds opened by the past
As things have died
New things will arise
Some must awake with a start
To live new lives
With shining eyes
And a newly indestructible heart